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| 1957 |
| | | In Syntactic Structures Noam Chomsky proposes the revolutionary theory that humans inherit an innate universal grammar | |
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| 1957 |
| | | John Diefenbaker heads a minority government in Canada, ending twenty-two years of Liberal rule | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Barbadian cricketer Gary Sobers, playing in Kingston, Jamaica, against Pakistan, makes a record Test score of 365 not out | |
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| 1957 |
| | | David Lean directs William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins in The Bridge on the River Kwai | |
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| 1957 |
| | | English author John Braine publishes his first novel, Room at the Top | |
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| 1957 |
| | | US paratroops enforce desegregation in Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas | |
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| 1957 |
| | | A country doctor, François Duvalier, is elected president of Haiti on a massive popular vote | |
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| 1957 |
| | | English author Stevie Smith publishes her collection of poems Not Waving but Drowning | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Laurence Olivier brings the music-hall artist Archie Rice vibrantly to life in John Osborne's The Entertainer | |
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| 1957 |
| | | The USSR launches Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite | |
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